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Hello! I have an 11-week old kitten I adopted recently and she has had problems with her food. We feed her chicken Solid Gold 1/2 cup as she last weighed 3lbs at the vet and various wet foods 3 oz total for one day. I have no idea how much wet food to feed her as thr bag doesn't say anything for a wet and dry diet.

She isoccasionally very gassy. She has no worms, we did a stool sample at the vet. Help?
 
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The general guideline for kittens is to feed them as much as they'll eat because they're growing and active, though I'm not sure how much that usually comes to for a kitten as small as yours.

As for the gassiness, perhaps your kitten has a sensitivity to something in her food. You referred to your kitten having problems with her food. What are they? Might they be related to the gas?

One of our cats was horribly gassy when we first adopted her (at ten months). Taking her off dry food and eliminating potato from her diet pretty much got rid of the gas.

Good luck!
 
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icana said:
Hello! I have an 11-week old kitten I adopted recently and she has had problems with her food. We feed her chicken Solid Gold 1/2 cup as she last weighed 3lbs at the vet and various wet foods 3 oz total for one day. I have no idea how much wet food to feed her as thr bag doesn't say anything for a wet and dry diet.

She isoccasionally very gassy. She has no worms, we did a stool sample at the vet. Help?
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Maybe try feeding some different food. I'd also suggest giving her a good quality probiotic to help with digestion. 
 
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I'm no expert but we went though a similar situation last year when we adopted a 5 mo old. Her stomach was always gurgling and she had the smelliest gas. She would even startle herself when she farted! She was tested for worms and given probiotics but in the end she just got better on her own. Certain canned foods do make her grassier so it was trial and error for a while. Now she's on Natures Variety wet and Halo dry and does well. We let her eat as much as she wanted her first year. Also for the first month we had her she wolfed down her food so fast I think she swallowed a lot of air which possibly made it worse.
 
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Molly22 said:
I'm no expert but we went though a similar situation last year when we adopted a 5 mo old. Her stomach was always gurgling and she had the smelliest gas. She would even startle herself when she farted! She was tested for worms and given probiotics but in the end she just got better on her own. Certain canned foods do make her grassier so it was trial and error for a while. Now she's on Natures Variety wet and Halo dry and does well. We let her eat as much as she wanted her first year. Also for the first month we had her she wolfed down her food so fast I think she swallowed a lot of air which possibly made it worse.
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This is very similar to our cat's story with gas! I'd forgotten that she'd gurgled, too. But you're right: it's all trial and error. It was by chance that figured out that potato was Edwina's problems for vomiting and, apparently, the gas, too.

She's still a fast eater, nearly two years later, so I definitely can't blame the air too much, though.
 
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